Learning Path: Drupal: Responsive Apps With Drupal 8

Level up your web app development skills to build a fully featured, multilingual, responsive Drupal 8 application

What you'll learn

Discover how to create complex websites quickly

Find out how to use the building blocks of Drupal 8

Work with the powerful Views module

Use different plugins and create your own plugins

Understand how to test, deploy and monitor your application

Use Drupal 8 core components to build richly featured websites

Enhance the functioning of existing modules and add new functionality by writing your own custom modules

Make your website accessible to non-human visitors with Drupal 8's built-in REST capabilities

Requirements

Basic knowledge of CMS systems function will be useful

Basic programming knowledge of PHP, JavaScript (jQuery), HTML, and CSS is needed

Description

Drupal is one of the most popular web content management systems on the planet and offers an incredible array of features and functionality. Small nonprofits and businesses to multi-billion dollar multinational companies are all using Drupal as the core of their presence on the web. Drupal 8 brings a lot of groundbreaking changes to its ecosystem, from basic architectural to functional. Understanding these changes is vital to you if you are trying to explore Drupal 8 and become a qualified Drupal 8 professional. Drupal will help you build your skill level from ground level up and enable you to create an efficient Drupal 8 application from scratch. If you're interested to build a fully featured, multilingual, responsive web application with Drupal 8, then go for this Learning Path.

Packt’s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.


The highlights of this Learning Path are:

Explore the world of various views and components in Drupal 8

Understand how to test, deploy and monitor your application

Leverage Drupal 8's mobile-first philosophy to make your website accessible on any device


This practical step-by-step Learning Path will ensure that you build a stunning, fully-featured, multilingual, and responsive web-application with Drupal 8.


Let’s take a quick look at your learning journey…


You’ll start off with the primary focal points of Drupal 8’s key features and its importance. Then, you’ll start building your Drupal 8 app, create the application architecture, and use Drupal 8’s views and components extensively. You’ll learn how to create reusable templates using PHP scripting, use plugins, and develop simple plugins on your own. You’ll explore the use of views module (now part of core!) and other contributed modules to add a bit of customization to the site. You’ll also create a new functionality of your own, including providing REST web services. Finally, you’ll take a brief look at how to create a mobile-friendly theme that ensures anybody on any device can take advantage of the amazing site you’ve built.


By the end of this Learning Path, you'll have acquired core components of Drupal 8 to test, deploy, and monitor your fully-featured, multilingual application effectively with no custom coding.

Meet Your Expert:

We have the best work of the following esteemed author to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:Jason Blandahas been professionally developing and deploying websites using the Drupal content management system for over 7 years. He runs the One Stop How to Guys YouTube channel, offering a wide variety of free educational courses including but not limited to Drupal 8. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arch board Media, a website development company in Canton, Ohio, building websites and web apps on the Drupal content management system.In a prior lifetime, Marc Isaacson was an AS/400 RPG application developer. He left the programming field entirely in 2001 to pursue other interests, including teaching High School math. Marc first fell in love with Drupal in 2008 when he was playing around with creating websites for his own projects. At the time, he didn't have any intention of returning to the programming field; Drupal was just a tool that helped him to get the job done. After a series of life events conspired to bring him back to programming, he decided to teach himself to be a web developer. Naturally, he chose Drupal as the tool to learn. Marc started building websites for clients in 2010 and now specializes in using Drupal as a framework to build custom web applications. Marc has attended and presented at many Drupal camps, including DrupalCamp Colorado and BADCamp. He has also attended every North American DrupalCon since DrupalCon Denver in 2012. His first time acting as a Core Sprint Mentor was at DrupalCon New Orleans in 2016.

Overview

Section 1: Drupal 8 for Beginners

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 Whats New

Lecture 3 Installing MAMP

Lecture 4 Downloading Drupal 8

Lecture 5 Setting Up the Database

Lecture 6 Installing Drupal 8

Lecture 7 It's Alive

Lecture 8 Content Types in Drupal 8

Lecture 9 Extending Your Reach with Modules

Lecture 10 Using Blocks with Drupal 8

Lecture 11 Creating Contact Forms

Lecture 12 Understanding Views

Lecture 13 Setting up a View

Lecture 14 Working with Contextual Filters

Lecture 15 Sending it Out with REST-First

Lecture 16 Downloading a Theme

Lecture 17 Custom Theming Part 1 Info File

Lecture 18 Custom Theming Part 2 Files and Folder Structure

Lecture 19 Custom Theming Part 3 Template Overriding

Lecture 20 Roles and Permissions

Lecture 21 Database Transfer

Lecture 22 File Transfer

Lecture 23 Managing Module Updates

Lecture 24 Managing Core Updates

Lecture 25 Reading the Reports

Lecture 26 Setting up the Content Types

Lecture 27 Creating Roles

Lecture 28 Creating Our News Feed Views

Lecture 29 Creating an RSS View Feed

Lecture 30 Creating a Recent News Block

Lecture 31 Adding a Contact Form

Lecture 32 Setting Up a REST API

Lecture 33 Naming and Placing your Extension

Lecture 34 Creating a Composer File

Lecture 35 Creating the Info File

Lecture 36 Adding Functionality

Lecture 37 Understanding Additional Files

Section 2: Mastering Drupal 8 Development

Lecture 38 The Course Overview

Lecture 39 Getting the Best out of the Course

Lecture 40 Exploring the Standard Installation Profile

Lecture 41 Creating Our Vocabularies

Lecture 42 Student Exercise – Creating Vocabularies

Lecture 43 Preparing to Work with Site Content

Lecture 44 Creating Our First Custom Content Type

Lecture 45 Creating Our First Piece of Content

Lecture 46 Student Exercise – Defining Content Type

Lecture 47 Creating a User Guide with the Book Module

Lecture 48 Working with Pages and Menus

Lecture 49 Student Exercise – Providing More Content

Lecture 50 Using Blocks

Lecture 51 Using Drupal’s Editing Experience

Lecture 52 Managing Roles, Permissions, and Users

Lecture 53 Creating a Page with an Exposed Filter

Lecture 54 Creating a Block Display with Views

Lecture 55 Student Exercise - Put the New Skills to Use!

Lecture 56 Understanding Drupal’s File Structure

Lecture 57 Using Pathauto to Generate URL Aliases

Lecture 58 Using Colorbox to Create Product Image Gallery

Lecture 59 Combining Video Embed Field and Colorbox

Lecture 60 Student Exercise - Making Use of Functionalities

Lecture 61 Exploring Tours

Lecture 62 Creating Our Own Tour

Lecture 63 Making Our Tour Available to Anonymous Visitors

Lecture 64 Creating the Product Custom Module

Lecture 65 Student Exercise - Create a Custom Module

Lecture 66 Creating a Controller

Lecture 67 Triggering a Modal Display

Lecture 68 Student Exercise – Requirements for Building a Controller

Lecture 69 Defining an Interface

Lecture 70 Creating a Service

Lecture 71 Student Exercise - Create an Interface

Lecture 72 Writing a Service

Lecture 73 Writing a .module File

Lecture 74 Writing a QueueWorker Plugin

Lecture 75 Student Exercise - Write Your First Plugin

Lecture 76 Creating a Configurable Custom Block

Lecture 77 Student Exercise - Understand the Unique Details to Complete a Block

Lecture 78 Retrieving Information from an HTTP Request

Lecture 79 Student Exercise - Learn to Use a Service

Lecture 80 Student Exercise - Layout Your Own Service

Lecture 81 Understanding Drupal's Core REST Services

Lecture 82 Understanding the Contrib REST UI Module

Lecture 83 Consuming Data from Drupal via REST

Lecture 84 "GET"ting Data Through Views

Lecture 85 "GET"ting Data Through Drupal Core

Lecture 86 "GET"ting Data Through Custom Code

Lecture 87 "POST"ing Data Through Drupal Core

Lecture 88 "POST"ing Data Through Custom Code

Lecture 89 Student Exercise - Configure the REST Resource

Lecture 90 "PATCH"ing Data Through Drupal Core

Lecture 91 "PATCH"ing Data Through Custom Code

Lecture 92 Student Exercise - Complete the Steps!

Lecture 93 Student Exercise – "DELETE"ing Data Through REST

Lecture 94 Using the Language Module

Lecture 95 Using the Content Translation Module

Lecture 96 Configuring Views for Multilingual

Lecture 97 Student Exercise - Translation and Configuration

Lecture 98 Using the Interface Translation Module

Lecture 99 Using the Configuration Translation Module

Lecture 100 Student Exercise - Completing the Translation Process

Lecture 101 Testing Our Code

Lecture 102 Writing Unit Tests

Lecture 103 Student Exercise - Write Unit Test

Lecture 104 Writing Kernel Tests

Lecture 105 Student Exercise - Write Your Own Kernel Test

Lecture 106 Writing Functional Tests

Lecture 107 Student Exercise - Test Another Functional Block

Lecture 108 Writing Functional JavaScript Tests

Lecture 109 Student Exercise - Writing Another Functional JavaScript Test

Lecture 110 Creating the Ocean Temperature Data Entity

Lecture 111 Creating a Better Entity Listing

Lecture 112 Creating the Validation Service

Lecture 113 Creating the REST Resources

Lecture 114 Writing the PHPUnit Tests

Lecture 115 Cloning an Existing Environment

Lecture 116 Using a Local Settings File

Lecture 117 Porting Changes from Development to Production

Lecture 118 Student Exercise - Clone Your Existing Environment into a "Production" Environme

Lecture 119 Defining a Custom Theme

Lecture 120 Managing Asset Libraries

Lecture 121 Using Twig Templates

Lecture 122 Student Exercise – Complete Your Custom Theme

Lecture 123 Introduction

Lecture 124 Setting up a Local Development Environment

Lecture 125 Installing and Updating Drupal Manually

Lecture 126 Digging Deeper into Important Concepts

Lecture 127 Understanding How Drupal 8 Approaches Things

Lecture 128 Learning More About OOP Concepts and Tools of the Trade

If you are a web developer with basic knowledge of how CMS systems function, then this is the perfect Learning Path for you.